Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2024-05-02
Books mentioned on CZM Rewind: Part Two: Savitri Devi The Woman Who Turned Nazism into a Religion
Robert is joined again by Jamie Loftus to continue discussing Savitri Devi. Jamie’s new Cool Zone Media show Sixteenth Minute launches on May 7th!
Robert Evans discussed Gold in the Furnace by Savitri Devi, Hitler's Priestess by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Long-Whiskers and the Two-legged Goddess, Or, The True Story of a "most Objectionable Nazi" And... Half-a-dozen Cats by Savitri Devi, The Lightning and the Sun by Savitri Devi, Impeachment of Man by Savitri Devi, and The Young Hitler I Knew by August Kubizek.
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Gold in the Furnace
Discussed“She later wrote in her book, Gold in the Furnace, that the gods had ordained that I should have a glimpse of ruins, bitter, irony of fate.”
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Hitler's Priestess
Discussed“And I'm going to quote again from the book, Hitler's Priestess.”
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Long-Whiskers and the Two-legged Goddess, Or, The True Story of a "most Objectionable Nazi" And... Half-a-dozen Cats
Discussed“For example, she retold the story of her first trip back to Europe in the children's fable, Long Whiskers and the Two-Legged Goddess, whose heroine is a cat-loving Nazi named Heliodora.”
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The Lightning and the Sun
Discussed“Over the next few years, Savitri wrote and conversed with increasingly aged Nazis and gradually refined her theories about the world until, in 1958, she published what would prove to be her magnum opus, The Lightning in the Sun.”
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Impeachment of Man
Discussed“And some of her early books that she wrote when the Nazis were in power, but before she was explicitly a Nazi, like the impeachment of man, don't explicitly reference Nazism.”
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The Young Hitler I Knew
Discussed“And she used several segments from August Kubizek's ill-advised book, The Young Hitler I Knew.”
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